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Committee reports
Date published:
5 February 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill - Addressing stigma
Local Government and Communities Committee Official Report 18 December 2019 Col 6 The Orkney Partnership said the Scottish Government's current work was helping to raise awareness and reduce stigma and Engender considered the Bill as an important first stage in addressing stigma and normalising periods.Local Government and Communities Committee Official Rep...
Committee reports
Date published:
15 January 2020
Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland (Amendment) Bill Committee - Preliminary Stage Report - Updating the 1871 Act for modern conditions
The Promoter explained that the fiscal was an historic office for handling matters of discipline, prior to the role now played by the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission. The Society still has a librarian, but that person no longer needs to be a qualified solicitor, and the 1871 Act is therefore being amended to reflect this...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
Secure care and prison places for children and young people in Scotland - Other services (health, dental, education, SLT etc.)
To improve the situation, the RCSLT called for dedicated SLT provision in the Secure Care estate, further training on the benefits of SLT for staff and for the Scottish Government to promote the value of SLT to deliver a more holistic approach for the individual and increase the effectiveness of interventions for those whose communication skills are underde...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2019
Key audit themes - Financial information and reporting
The Committee notes, however, that such changes have tended to be introduced following a critical report from the Auditor General as part of a broader package of measures.
The Scottish Government has a key role in ensuring that the boards of public bodies regularly and proactively review the information that is provided to them.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 May 2019
Overview of private rented housing reforms in Scotland - Direct policy reforms - context
As is true in many other countries, UK and Scottish residential investment remains a small-scale business with the great majority of landlords operating portfolios of one to three properties (and most just one unit).
Committee reports
Date published:
3 May 2019
Planning (Scotland) Bill: as amended at Stage 2 - Section 4: delegated powers not drawn to the attention of the Parliament
Section 4: delegated powers not drawn to the attention of the Parliament
The Committee agreed that it did not need to draw the Parliament’s attention to the remaining delegated powers in the Bill as amended at Stage 2, which are as follows:
Part 1: Development planning
Section 1(6), inserting section 3AA into the 1997 Act – Provision of information to assist preparation of National Planning Framework
Section 1A, inserting new section 3G into the 1997 Act – Open space strategy
Section 2A, inserting new section 8A(2)(d) and (11) into the 1997 Act – Evidence report for preparation of strategic development plans
Section 3(4), inserting new section 16B(1) into the 1997 Act – Effective Community Engagement: Guidance
Section 3(4), inserting new section 16C into the 1997 Act – Play sufficiency assessment
Section 3(8), inserting new section 20A(1A) into the 1997 Act – Publication of and publicity for local development plan
Section 9(4), inserting new paragraphs 2(1)(aa), 2A(5) and 2B of schedule 19 of the 1997 Act – Local Place Plans
Part 2: Masterplan consent areas
Section 10(3), inserting schedule 5A, paragraph 3(6) into the 1997 Act - Places that cannot be included in a scheme
Part 2A: Culturally significant zones
Section 11A(4), inserting new section 56B(5) into the 1997 Act – Designation of culturally significant zones; supplementary provisions
Part 3: Development management
Section 12A(2), inserting new section 40A into the 1997 Act – Assessment of health effects
Section 14G, inserting new section 41B(4) into the 1997 Act - Conditional grant of planning permission: provision of toilet facilities within certain large developments
Section 16A, inserting new section 46A into the 1997 Act – Call-in of applications by Scottish...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 April 2019
Report on Scottish National Standardised Assessments - SNSAs supporting children and young people's learning
r=11910&c=2147659Other witnesses suggested that there was sufficient information present in the Scottish education system already to inform teacher judgment in relation to literacy, numeracy and other elements of the curriculum.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 March 2019
Transitions of young people with service and care needs between child and adult services in Scotland - Named person and child's plan
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0216.html" target="_blank">https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0216.html</a> [accessed 18 February 2019] Following this, on 19 June 2017, the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament. The Bill seeks to chan...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2019
Report on post-legislative scrutiny of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 - The Police Service of Scotland - Protecting and improving local services and stopping the duplication of support services
In its written submission the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents stated that “… there remains considerable work to be done to transform Corporate Services functions and ICT Support functions, which are often the source of duplication between central HQ functions and territorial or specialist departmental Divisions”. 10ASPS. (2018).
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2019
Report on post-legislative scrutiny of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 - The Police Service of Scotland - Impact on local policing
The Committee recommends that Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority address the concerns expressed by officers about the impact of the creation of specialist services on local policing and also review the information that is provided to local authorities to enable them to understand the specialist support available to them.
